trapped in the bus wreckage.
"There were human bodies strewn around," said George Blah, a resident.
Several of the passengers with severed body parts were trapped in the mangled bus
as the locals struggled to cut the vehicles to retrieve the dead and those alive.
The locals who had to resort to chainsaws to cut the bus in order to reach the trapped
passengers believe all the occupants of the Metro Mass perished.
Atingane said initial reports suggested a mechanical failure on the bus caused the
accident but police were investigating.
Bismark Owusu Fosu, medical director at the Kintampo hospital, said some of the
injured had been evacuated by air for treatment in Kumasi, Ghana's second city.
President John Mahama commiserated with families who have lost loved ones ,
describing the motor accident as a "very sad news" in a Tweet and Facebook post, Mahama